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I see a lot of disrguntled people on social media agonising with the authoritarian UK police exercising their powers many times in an unlawful manner or using a very laisser faire interpretation of legislation and statutory law.

Such behavior was recently brought to our attention by e-celebrities like Elon Musk.

Rather than paying attention to the content creator or the actual video I tend to read the comments (whenever available) to grasp the crowd behavior as well as the direction the narrative shifts to over time.

And I see a lot of angry people shouting “Nazis…!” or “You are fascists…” to the Police.

I am so taken back by the crowd using such epithets. Their simplistic brainwashed mind, of course equates fascism or Nazis with authoritarian powers. At the same time they think that by using such terms the Police will run away in shame and leave them alone.

But why don’t they call the Police “Bolshevik Communists” or “Bolshevik Jews”?

Who created this narrative?

Non other than the Bolshevik Russians after WW2.

Jews were proportionately overrepresented in the Russian Social Democratic Workers Party (RSDWP) from the start. Apart from being active in the party’s Jewish faction, the Bund, which sought to mobilize the “Jewish street” by conducting propaganda activity in Yiddish, Jews comprised a significant proportion of the party’s “Russian” contingent. Most important, they were highly overrepresented in the Bolshevik leadership. Significant figures included Iurii Kamenev, Maksim Litvinov, Karl Radek, Iakov Sverdlov, Leon Trotsky, and Grigorii Zinov’ev. This was so blatant that anti-Bolsheviks frequently associated the party with Jews in order to contaminate the party’s public image.

In a total of 545 members the Bolshevist administration was comprized of :

447 Jews

30 Russians

34 Letts

22 Armenians

12 Germans

3 Finns

2 Poles

1 Georgian

1 Czech

1 Hungarian

Some well known figures were:

• Leon Trotsky (born Lev Davidovich Bronstein) - A leading Bolshevik and close associate of Vladimir Lenin.

He played a significant role in the October Revolution and in the establishment of the early Soviet government.

• Grigory Zinoviev (born Hirsch Apfelbaum) - Another key Bolshevik leader who was part of the Central Committee and the Bolshevik Party's inner circle.

• Lev Kamenev (born Lev Borisovich Rozenfeld) - An early Bolshevik and close associate of Lenin and Trotsky. He held several high-ranking positions within the Soviet government.

• Yakov Sverdlov - A prominent Bolshevik leader and chairman of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee, which was the highest executive body in Soviet Russia for a time.

• Karl Radek (born Karol Sobelsohn) - A Bolshevik revolutionary, journalist, and close associate of Lenin.

• Moisei Uritsky - A revolutionary leader and early Soviet official who played a role in the Red Terror in Petrograd.

• Ilya Ehrenburg - While not a prominent Bolshevik leader, he was a notable Jewish writer and journalist who supported the Soviet regime.

At the party congress held in August 1917, a total of 29 out of 171 delegates were Jews, the second most represented ethnic group after the Russians; moreover, 6 of 17 Central Committee members were Jews.

The number of Jewish party members swelled after the Bolshevik takeover in October 1917, especially in the first decade of Bolshevik rule.

Jews remained overrepresented in the party rank and file. Representing just 1.8 percent of the total population in the 1926 census, Jews comprised 5.2 percent of party members in 1922 and 4.3 percent in 1927 [1]

But, enough with history. The takeaway message is that not all members of the Bolshevik Communist party were Jews but Jews were statistically and undisputidely overrepresented withi that party with regards to their demographic.

The original definition of fascism was that a nationalist and militarist reaction against the rise of the communist Third International. The fascists therefore or fascism as such was not against its own people. Similarly, a NaZi was a dysphemism and an informal and originally derogatory term for a party member, abbreviating the party's name (Nationalsozialist or National Socialists), and was coined in analogy with Sozi (an abbreviation of Sozialdemokrat (member of the rival Social Democratic Party of Germany/ SDP). Similarly, to the Italian fascsists, the German National Socialsists cherished their own people above and beyond.

The Bolsheviks though did not like their own people. Not only they hated they but they starved them and killed them…in millions. Holodomor afficionados know what I am referring to.

So, the next time you see Police beating up peaceful protestors don’t call them Nazis or fascists. Call them Bolsheviks or Jews instead !

References

[1] Communist Party of the Soviet Union